Mobile Unit. Palmerston memories

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Year
1948
Reference
5540
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1948
Reference
5540
Media type
Audio
Series
Mobile Unit - NZ oral history, 1946-1948
Duration
00:59:35
Credits
RNZ Collection
FLEMING, ANTHONY, Interviewee
MILLER, JAMES SUTHERLAND, Interviewee
New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Mobile Recording Unit

Anthony Fleming and James Sutherland Miller discuss their memories of early Palmerston, including roads and waggoners, Shag Point coal mines, flour mill, sod huts, thatching, farming, rabbits, wekas, place names, the pioneer Johnny Jones, the Chinese and their treatment, transport (cars, pennyfarthing, gigs), the mail service and Māori fishing. Actual recording date unknown.